SOCIALISM - 28% Unemployment Rate for Greece

In this 2012 photo youth unemployment was "only" 50.4%. 
All the European bailouts only made it worse.

61.4% Greek Youth Unemployment

• Europe is a corrupt blend of big government Socialism and Mussolini Corporatism.  The official policy is to drive governments like Greece deeper and deeper into debt with international bankers, crush their economies and force them, as debt slaves, to obey their Masters in Brussels.   

Greece’s unemployment rate has hit new highs.

Even amid tentative signs of economic recovery in the country, there is no let up in the pace of job shedding.

Economists expect things to get worse in the early part of this year as companies continue to restructure and fire workers reports Euronews.

One Greek jobseeker explained that the only thing available for most people is temporary, government-funded work.

She said: “We certainly don’t see any positive signs, nothing to indicate that there are jobs. Everyone’s looking, but there are just these programmes that last for five months, but then you’re out of work again. You have a break from being on the dole, but it’s just for five, or at most six months depending on the programme.”

The latest figures that have been released are for November 2013.

Overall unemployment inched up to 28 percent. It had been 27 percent a year earlier and 27.7 percent in October.

The youth jobless total reached 61.4 percent in November, up a full two percent from November 2012.

Though life remains extremely difficult for millions, with 14 percent of the Greeks living in extreme poverty according to a survey carried out late last year, Greece’s austerity-fuelled economic slump is starting to ease.

There have been improvements in retail sales, manufacturing activity and construction, but that is a long way from feeding through into substantial job creation.

Symela Touchtidou, the euronews business reporter in Athens, concluded: “The Greek government is preparing to borrow on the international markets for the first time in four years. A successful auction of bonds would mean Greece becoming the latest country to exit the bailout program.

Internet Hacking - Why On Earth Are You Still Using Debit Cards?

 

Are You a Sucker?

• Why on earth are you still using credit and debit cards connected to the Internet for anyone on earth to hack?
• Also, recently I had lunch at a mom and pop BBQ restaurant.  They give their customers a 5% discount for paying in cash.  That discount illustrates how we are overpaying for everything.  Stores have jacked up prices to cover the fees banks charge them for the "privilege" of letting their customers use plastic.

By Gary;

I am a revolutionary.  Yesterday I walked into the market, handed a twenty dollar bill to the clerk and then left with my merchandise.

No debit or credit card was used.  No account numbers to be stolen by hackers.  No bank fees.  No going into debt to buy crap made in Asian sweatshops.  A simple cash transaction for something I needed.

The media is in their traditional 24 hour news cycle meltdown over the hacking of perhaps 40,000,000 bank accounts through purchases at Target.

But the Target story misses the point.  The real issue is, in an age of Internet hacking why are you using plastic cards that are connected to your bank accounts?

But also, why the Hell are people using plastic credit cards to go into debt to buy crap made in Asia?

At times it feels like 50% of the TV ads are by the multi-national banking industry trying to get you to use plastic to go deep into debt with their corporation at 15% to 30% interest rates. 

In the olden days a bank would cancel your checking account if you bounced too may checks.  Today the banks want you to bounce as many card purchases as possible and rake in huge overdraft fees.  And then there are the endless banking fees to stores that drive up prices for every product. 

The bankers want you to become a modern Serf (a wage slave) with you working all year long to make them wealthy.

Fight the Banks  -  It is the goal of the banking industry to separate you from as much of your income as possible.  Like vampires, the bankers want you to stay in debt for your entire life, and now with debit cards they can suck you dry purchase by purchase.

Join me and fight the banking industry.  Cut up your cards and pay for products with cash.  And don't be shy.  Tell merchants that you want a discount for cash or you will take your business down the street.

Fight to regain control of your life.

The Zombie Madness of Black Friday

Welcome to Zombieland

 

 

The U.S. faces massive debt, job outsourcing, poverty, under and unemployment, but the Zombie shoppers spend on and on as if they world will end tomorrow. 

 

The mouth-breathing Zombie hordes first fight with each other over parking spaces and then for the right to buy crap made in Asian sweatshops.

In this YouTube video Alex Jones joins David Knight to speak about the zombification of the general public in regard to our consumerist culture.  We are being manipulated by the mass media and global elite to incite our primal animal instincts for products we don’t actually need.